Top story: Just a day after President Felipe Calderon's administration touted Mexico's progress in the war against drug cartels, the violence took a turn for the worse with a deadly shooting at a rehab center in Ciudad Juarez and the murder of a senior security official in Michoacan.
Seventeen people were killed in the assault on the clinic. Gunmen stormed into the facility and forced patients to line up before shooting them. Cartels frequently target rehab clinics after accusing them of sheltering dealers from rival gangs. More than 10,000 federal troops have been stationed in Juarez and the mayor has asked that their deployment be extended for another six months.
Gunmen also assassinated the deputy public safety secretary of Michoacan and two of his bodyguards as they left his office.
The United States released $214 million in aid to Mexico's drug war on Tuesday, including funds for five helicopters.
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Asia
- Afghan election results are likely to be further delayed thanks to fraud investigations.
- South Korea's president carried out a major cabinet reshuffle and appointed a new prime minister.
- Han Chinese protested in the Xinjiang city of Urumqi over rising crime.
Middle East
- Iran's assembly approved most of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet, including a defense minister wanted for a 1994 bombing in Argentina.
- Israel freed nine Hamas-affiliated members of parliament from prison.
- Construction of new housing in the West Bank fell in the first half of 2009.
Americas
- Colombia's congress approved a referendum on allowing President Alvaro Uribe to run for a third term.
- A French filmmaker working on a documentary about street gangs was killed in El Salvador.
- The U.S. is threatening to cut off millions of dollars in aid to Honduras if Manuel Zelaya is not returned to power.
Africa
- Ali Bongo Ondimba, son of late leader Omar Bongo, appears to have won Gabon's presidential election.
- Oxfam calls the camps for Somali refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya "barely fit for humans."
- Rwanda's former speaker of parliament was sentenced to life in prison for inciting hatred during the 1994 genocide.
Europe
- Russia's supreme court ordered a new investigation into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and criticized the Kremlin's policies in Chechnya.
- The leaders of Britain, France, and Germany issued a joint letter calling for greater bank regulation.
- The EU is planning to admit more refugees from conflict zones.
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